WaxProlix

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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Hey Chris, great to see you here. Still waiting for my hefty kickstart of Light Table to pay off, any updates there? (for real though, this looks cool; what kinds of longevity should we expect from such a project - how can we be sure?)
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Same
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
At least in the Settings pane, the slider is kinda ambiguous as to whether you're opted in or not. https://postimg.cc/2V7mM77C vs https://postimg.cc/1nF1HGzh
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Sure, and their real estate sector is shaky, their domestic investment model (and their foreign policy wrt trade and subsidy) has some real sustainability questions, it's not perfect but they're absolutely blitzing. Even if the gr
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
China poured more concrete in 2023-2025 than the US has throughout its entire history. China creates and consumes an order of magnitude more energy, and in an increasingly sustainable and cost-effective manner. China has largely moved towar
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
They've been around in one form or another since the early 80s, and have been in and out of a few of the major chaebols in that time. I wouldn't call them privately owned in the western sense, necessarily. There's no institut
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
This is a good intuition. The construction is actually sometimes jokingly called the "Try And"-C, where "C" stands for Complementizer, a thing that introduces and subordinates a clause.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Iraqis didn't view Saddam as an invading force. Some even liked him!
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
I don't really agree - a dedicated populous with light arms in both cases was able to ward off a full victory on their home turf, and the US caved to losses and other pressures (60k dead americans in 'nam, hundreds of thousands wo
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Substitute Vietnam then, if the point makes you feel better.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Do you feel that way about the last time Israel broke ceasefire in operation Cast Lead, which resulted in similar civilian vs combatant deaths? Maybe no amount of punishment is enough for the evil on the other side? It's not a helpful
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
That's true up to a certain threshold on 'probabilistically correct', right? At a certain number of 9s, it's fine. And increasingly I use AI to help ask me questions, refine my understanding of problem spaces, do deep re
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
There are other websites on the internet, and I don't want to/didn't consider toggling off ghostery, noscript, ublock origin, etc per domain that I choose to pay for.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
It's funny, I had YouTube's paid offering for a few years (I used the service a lot and want to support non ad-based revenue streams). But they changed something a while back that started giving me a degraded experience, and event
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
People band together for sports teams, open source software, volunteer fire brigades, drinking clubs, fantasy football leagues, cover bands, all kinds of things that require all kinds of levels of investment, toil, coordination, and subjug
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Many preppers work towards this goal so it's not unreasonable if you've already made the leap to 'something bad happened but I survived with my house/bunker/bug out bag/whatever'. I'm not really a pre
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
So they check the bill and see that you incurred a $500 fine for smoking in the room they paid for? How does this help :(
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Aside from the fact that nobody is lionizing a group in Sudan (vs say Israel), and so there's no direct comparison here? One major difference that I see - though of course I can't speak for the journalists - is that my country and
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
> This presumes the journalists are somehow neutral to begin with I don't think it presumes that, I'm just pointing out that the existence of articles reporting on Israeli war crimes doesn't preclude bias. > How do you
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
1. You don't have the counterfactual here, so who's to say how the world would have turned out without exhortations from top brass. 2. Recent is the keyword. The tide of public sentiment has shifted somewhat against Israel in this
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Maybe a replacement for sqlite in some contexts if it's even lighter? What does tinykv do better than the current standard for file backed lightweight DB?
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
True, they should set up child abuse checkpoints too - think of the children after all.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
This is classic playbook for this administration. Is air force one out of date, is replacing it a boondoggle? Yes and yes! Should we take a garish bug ridden pile of expense second hand from foreign sources? No! Does America somewhat subsid
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Already in orbit around Earth, notably. Not Sedna.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Sure, but GP's point is that that level of spending likely won't continue now that the (forecasted) demand has been met.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Na, the utility payers actually pay it, though taxpayers pay for some of the infrastructure and administration, and given to some service providers in the form of tax breaks I think. The circles of that venn diagram are close to an overlap
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
That's largely true, but on the flipside at least some of the rush of batteries into Texas to do ancillary services and provide redundancy are a result of greedy capitalists seeing the profits a few hundred MWh can get you in Texas (at
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
ERCOT has done a great job of setting up incentives, getting out of the way, and letting markets solve their problems. Working with CAISO and then going to set up batteries in ERCOT was such a breath of fresh air for an old team of mine.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Yeah sorry for the typo - I obviously didn't mean the dude from the 80s. I'm not a scholar but have been paying attention for at least the last few years, so mea culpa.
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by WaxProlix 1y ago
Even if the regime doesn't survive, what's our track record in Iranian regime change like? What are the chances people there swallow their pride and roll over? If anything, Khomeini is probably a moderate compared to a lot of what

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